Hello, while some important activities are missing, Sugar can be installed and used in Ubuntu 8.04 out of the official Universe repositories. It is a very easy way of trying it out.
The packages to install are sugar-emulator and sugar-activities. The latter is a metapackage depending on sugar-calculate-activity sugar-chat-activity sugar-connect-activity sugar-logviewer-activity sugar-memorize-activity sugar-pippy-activity sugar-terminal-activity sugar-turtleart-activity sugar-web-activity It can be started from the command prompt as sugar-emulator or from the application menu item of the same description. There's also a GDM login option for Sugar which will run it natively instead of in Xephyr. The latter option I have not tested as much as the emulator. Abiword 2.6 did not make it in Ubuntu 8.04 but if you add the Sugar repo for Hardy as described at https://launchpad.net/~sugar/+archive/ you can also install python-abiword and then sugar-write-activity, sugar-jigsawpuzzle-activity and sugar-sliderpuzzle-activity from Universe will work as well. Squeak in Ubuntu is not new enough and does not include the Etoys image so that activity is missing too. The read activity does not work either - hopefully the Sugar specific changes to Evince will be pushed upstream in this 2.23 GNOME cycle. Penguintv and TamTam are also notably missing, neither included license texts in the tarballs at the time of packaging, and that prevents uploading to Ubuntu - or any distro for that matter AFAIK. Paint and Record contain i386 specific shared objects so I wanted to take the time and see how those are best installed without breaking either Sugar's "one directory pe activity" or Debian's packaging policy. It looks like plenty of things are missing, but it's ok for getting started in learning or developing for Sugar and for interacting with other Sugar installations on the Internet. Jani _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
